SHOOTS Synonyms: 341 Similar and Opposite Words

shoots 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of shoot

as in fires

to cause (a projectile) to be driven forward with force BB guns shoot small round metal pellets

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as in blasts

to cause a weapon to release a missile with great force soldiers train extensively to learn to shoot accurately and quickly

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as in pops

to strike with a missile from a gun hunters can shoot deer only during the legally specified open season

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as in rushes

to proceed or move quickly some show-off shot past all the other skiers on the slope

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as in photographs

to take a photograph of shooting the lakeside scene while the light lasted

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as in casts

to throw or give off suddenly the old, broken-down toaster began shooting out sparks

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as in shouts

to voice one's opinions freely with force you've been wanting to say something since this meeting started, so shoot

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as in sprinkles

to mark with small spots especially unevenly hazel eyes that were brown shot with green

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as in sends

to cause to go or be taken from one place to another shot a congratulatory e-mail to his friend as soon as he heard the good news

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shoots

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noun

plural of shoot

as in limbs

a branch of a main stem especially of a plant collected the most tender shoots for the vegetable dish he was making

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as in pains

a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body there'd be a shoot of pain from that molar whenever I bit down

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Recent Examples of shoots

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The episode ends with Lee running for his life while McCann shoots into the darkness of the treeline. — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026 Body-camera video obtained by CBS News Atlanta shows HeeHaw the donkey galloping toward officers before a Cedartown police officer shoots him during a search for a missing girl. — Cbs News Atlanta Digital Team, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026 In the end, Hector’s father, Ramon, follows Mark to the exchange and shoots the final gunman to save both of them. — Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2026 Among the options being weighed is broadcasting the period immediately before the execution and cutting away before the firing squad shoots Hasan, an official familiar with the planning described. — ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026 The armed immigration agent then shoots Melanie in response, and his partner subsequently dies. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2026 Fahy is positioned behind Stewart as Atlanta’s Angel Reese shoots free throws and appears to be communicating with the scorer’s table. — Chantz Martin Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026 Even when his characters do use a computer screen, Okita shoots so tight on the cursor and characters, even their intricate composition appears tactile and sculpted. — James Marsh, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026 Cinematographer Kira Kelly shoots powerful close-ups of Misty, then pivots to watch the people watching her. — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026

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The increase indicates signs of green shoots in footwear manufacturing, both for order intake and shipment. — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026 But attracting more shoots is no longer the only measure of success. — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026 On shoots and at shows, models must be able to access healthy food and beverages in line with their dietary needs, and brands must provide information for models around healthy eating. — Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2026 Eco effort While over 80% of the reefs around the resort were bleached following the dramatic temperature rises of El Nino in 2016, the resort is throwing everything at its coral nursery and the green shoots are showing. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026 However, Laguarta shared green shoots showing that the company's efforts are working. — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026 At a time when major film and TV shoots are leaving the state, microdramas are one of the few areas of production that are growing locally. — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026 On location for the night shoots, blizzards, and allergic reactions that went into making Primetime. — Sinna Nasseri, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026 For 2025, the Madrid municipal office disclosed that feature film shoots set a new record of 71, handily exceeding the previous high of 47 set in 2022. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2026

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After all, what could go wrong sitting atop three million barrels of oil while a hostile country fires missiles and drones at it?

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2026
Andrew Garfield stars as Altman, with Anora‘s Yura Borisov playing Ilya Sutskever, the chief scientific officer and co-founder of OpenAI who fires Altman.

— Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of fires

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At the peak of the cycle, the sun blasts out more solar flares, as well as coronal mass ejections, immense explosions of material that scream outward into the solar system.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2026
In 2015, mine blasts at the border blamed on North Korea pushed the two Koreas to the brink of an armed conflict, after South Korea's then conservative government resumed front-line propaganda broadcasts for the first time in 11 years.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of blasts

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Every time something pops into your head, give it to the agent and let the agent keep track of what is coming due.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026
During our visit, a neighbor is looking after Whisky, while Mathilda pops over to a friend’s house to play.

— Amira Hashish, Architectural Digest, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of pops

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By Saturday, high temperatures will plummet down to the low 80s and upper 70s degrees or lower across a majority of the Central Valley as a breeze rushes in and fall finally says hello.

— Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 5 Oct. 2026
As the industry rushes to try to understand how to capitalize on that momentum, Parsons is already looking ahead.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of rushes

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All manner of contemporary art is shown here, with a collection over 200,000 pieces strong, ranging from Diane Arbus and Cindy Sherman photographs to paintings from Francis Bacon and Sol LeWitt sculptures.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Oct. 2026
His mother had tried, in the aftermath of a wildfire that destroyed their neighborhood, to replace the philosophy books and family photographs the 17-year-old boy had lost.

— Casey Parks, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of photographs

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High on mushrooms and his own unmoored ego, Lee’s not-quite-acceptance speech casts our protagonist as far from the heroic spotlight as anyone literally standing in one can get.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2026
Before observatories such as Greenwich, humans used sundials — essentially a stick in the ground that casts shadows as the sun moves overhead.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of casts

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Kemery sprinkles the tiny seeds either in late fall or very early spring, when there’s still a chance of frost, since cold spells offer the best germination.

— SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 11 July 2026
Thomson sprinkles critique throughout his book like seasoning unevenly applied to a gamey piece of meat.

— Michael O’Donnell, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026